EP1469685B1 - A method distinguishing line of sight (los) from non-line of sight (nlos) in cdma mobile communication system - Google Patents
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- the invention generally relates to mobile communication technology, especially to a method that identifies whether a channel includes a Line Of Sight (LOS) path or a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) path for a mobile station location in third generation cellular mobile communication system.
- LOS Line Of Sight
- NLOS Non-Line Of Sight
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- M. P. Wylie first proposes technique that identifies a NLOS used for mobile station location in the article named "The Non-Line of Sight Problem in Mobile Location Estimation” [1].
- a patent with number: US 5,974,329 ) to the USPTO named "Method and System for Mobile Location Estimation” [2], which aims at the NLOS error correction in the mobile location estimation and takes the NLOS identifying technique as a main element of the invention.
- the main thinking to identify a NLOS is as follow.
- the NLOS identifying method proposed by [1] and [2] need to use the time correlation properties of a mobile station, i.e., the method is suitable for identifying LOS of a mobile station in a moving state, but it is unsuitable for identifying a LOS of a mobile station in a static state; furthermore, the method need to accumulate data for a longer period of time, which will cause a longer delay and is difficult to satisfy response time requirement of the FCC.
- the method in [3] has overcome the disadvantage of the method in [1] and [2] which only identify the LOS at the moving state of a mobile station, but in [3], the method has not used the power differences between paths, and, the ratio of the mean delay and delay spread ⁇ / ⁇ in a same power delay profile to identify a LOS, also the selected characteristic parameters are not simple and clear enough, so the implementation is relatively complex.
- Objective of the invention is to design a method to identify a LOS path in a CDMA mobile communication system. With this method based on multipath searching (including de-spread, coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation), it can be identified that whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path.
- multipath searching including de-spread, coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation
- One purpose of the invention is to provide a method to identify whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path according to the power difference between a direct path and a non-direct path on the same power delay profile.
- Another purpose of the invention is to provide a method to further identify whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path by means of ⁇ / ⁇ difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path (wherein ⁇ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile, and ⁇ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile), based on the result of above method.
- ⁇ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile
- ⁇ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile
- a method for identifying whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path in a mobile communication system comprises:
- Theta ⁇ is taken 2.
- the Alpha ⁇ width is greater than one chip.
- Step D the threshold K in indoor environment, is set less than the threshold in outdoor environment, and the threshold in outdoor environment is set 10.
- Step D further comprises, dividing the threshold K into K1 and K2, wherein K1 > K2 ; wherein Step F further comprises, if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than K1 , determining the channel includes a LOS path; if the ratio is less than K2 , determining that the channel includes a NLOS path; and if said ratio is between K1 and K2, determining that the channel includes an undetermined path.
- the threshold K1 is taken 10 and K2 is taken 5.
- the time interval T is within three chips, and typically two chips.
- the technical scheme of the invention uses the power difference between paths on the same power delay profile, and uses ⁇ / ⁇ to identify a LOS path ( ⁇ is the mean delay and ⁇ is the RMS delay spread of the multipath power profile).
- a special feature of the invention is that the method for identifying a LOS path can be used to a mobile station (terminal) either in a moving state or in a static state.
- Implementation of the method deploys the present signal processing techniques for a communication system, such as de-spread, coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation etc., so implementation is simple and compatible with various mobile communication systems.
- Simulation shows that the method which uses the power difference between a direct path and a non-direct path on same power delay profile can effectively differentiate a LOS path or a NLOS path, but also the method which uses ⁇ / ⁇ difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path and is based on the result of above method can effectively differentiate a LOS path or a NLOS path.
- the mobile station positioning accuracy is obviously increased.
- the method for identifying a LOS path may also be used to identify a channel in high speed data transmission.
- Fig. 1 shows the power difference of a LOS path and a NLOS path on a same power delay profile.
- the abscissa is the relative delay with microsecond as a unit; the ordinate is the power with dB as a unit.
- the First_Path is the first path
- the Max_Path is the maximum power amplitude path
- the Second_Max_Path is the second power amplitude path
- the Alpha ⁇ is an interval width and the Local_Max_Path is the local maximum power amplitude path
- the searching window for the Local_Max_Path is from the starting point to the ending point.
- Fig. 1a is a typical power delay profile of a channel including LOS paths after having been processed with coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation
- Fig. 1b is a typical power delay profile of a channel including NLOS paths after having been processed with coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation.
- the characteristics of a channel including LOS paths power delay profile are: at the beginning location or 1 to 2 chips delay of power delay profile, there is a strongest path (Max_Path) of which strength is Ricean-distribute4; within interval Alpha ⁇ that directly follows behind the strongest path, there are quasi-LOS paths caused by strong reflection of terrain, and amplitudes of them have no great difference with the amplitude of the strongest path but they are attenuated rapidly; after Alpha ⁇ , there are typical NLOS paths and the strength of them is the Rayleigh distributed, and the Local_Max_Path is searched in the searching window (from the starting point to the ending point). Measurement shows the Local_Max_Path amplitude (-30dB in Fig.
- the characteristics of a channel including NLOS pathos power delay profile are: at the beginning location or 1 to 2 chips delay of it, there is the first path First_Path, then the strongest path Max_Path, and then an Alpha ⁇ interval; after the Alpha ⁇ interval they are a typical NLOS paths and the Local_Max_Path is searched in this searching window (from the starting point to the ending point as shown in Fig. 1b ). Measurement shows that there is no obviously difference between the amplitude of the Local_Max_Path and the amplitude of the Max_Path; this feature is a base to identify a channel including NLOS paths in this invention.
- Fig. 2 shows the ⁇ / ⁇ difference of the power delay profile for a channel including LOS paths and a NLOS paths (wherein ⁇ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile, and ⁇ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile).
- ⁇ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile
- ⁇ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile.
- the abscissa is a sample sequence number of the power delay spread, i.e. the power delay spread sequence number
- the ordinate is the ratio of ⁇ / ⁇ , i.e. a mean delay/a RMS time-delay spread.
- Fig. 2b takes the first path having been measured as the starting point to compute the values of ⁇ / ⁇ curves for LOS path and NLOS path; the real-line shows the ⁇ / ⁇ curve of the LOS path, and the dot-line shows the ⁇ / ⁇ curve of the NLOS path. Comparing Fig. 2a and Fig. 2b , it is shown that for the LOS path the average value in Fig. 2b is decreased a little than in Fig. 2a (it is 0.65 or so), but for the NLOS path the average value in Fig. 2b is obviously decreased than in Fig. 2a (it is decreased from 1.5 to 1.0, decreasing about 0.5).
- Fig. 2b shows that, there is an ambiguous zone for ⁇ / ⁇ curve of the LOS path and ⁇ / ⁇ curve of the NLOS path, but when the ⁇ / ⁇ value is less than a specific value (it is 0.65 in Fig. 2b ), it is determined that the channel includes a LOS path.
- This is the base of the invention to use ⁇ / ⁇ value for further identifying a LOS path after having been identified by the amplitude difference between different paths.
- Fig. 3 shows a basic flowchart to identify the channel including a LOS path or a NLOS path by using power strength (amplitude) difference between direct path and a non-direct path.
- the first step read in the power delay profile and extract its characteristic parameters; said power delay profile is obtained after the system has performed the coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation, and the outputs of the coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation are taken as a extracted basis of the characteristic parameters.
- the Max_Path is the path with maximum power amplitude (power strength) in the whole power -delay profile.
- the fourth step determine the Local_Max_Path that must be selected at the range that has Alpha ⁇ microsecond delay from the Max_Path; if there is no detectable path in said range, take Theta ⁇ (such as 2) multiple of noise average power as the Local_Max_Path value.
- the purpose to take said range that has Alpha ⁇ microsecond delay from the Max_Path is to avoid the strong reflect path that follows the Max_Path in the channel including a LOS path; the Alpha ⁇ should be taken more than one chip width.
- Formula (1) detects whether a ratio of the strongest path and the local strongest path (Max_Path/Local_Max_Path) is greater than a threshold K .
- a ratio of the strongest path and the local strongest path (Max_Path/Local_Max_Path) is greater than a threshold K .
- the threshold K is different; usually the indoor threshold is less than the outdoor threshold, and here K is taken 10 as the outdoor threshold.
- Formula (2) detects whether the arriving time difference between the first path and the maximum path is less than a setting value T; T is within three chips time and typically it is taken two chips time.
- the power delay profile is various; in some specific environments, the Max_Path/ Local_Max_Path of the channel including a LOS path may overlap the Max_Patb/ Local_Max_Path of the channel including a NLOS path.
- the threshold K is divided into two values K1 and K2 , wherein K1 > K2 , for example K1 is taken 10 and K2 is taken 5.
- Fig. 4 shows a flowchart for identifying a channel including NLOS path by using power difference between paths and ⁇ / ⁇ .
- the flowchart is divided into two parts; the first part uses power difference between paths to identify the channel including a LOS path, i.e., the first part makes detection by means of amplitude difference between a direct path and a non-direct path; then the second part further identifies the NLOS path having been identified by the first part to determine that the channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path.
- the first step and second step detect whether the channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path by using amplitude difference; this is same as the procedure described in Fig. 3 .
- the missing detection means that parts of LOS paths are missed detecting into NLOS paths, and the false detection means that NLOS paths are detected into LOS paths falsely. Thereby the result is that there are some power delay profiles of channel including LOS paths not fulfilling formula (1), and these LOS paths should be further detected by the ⁇ / ⁇ difference of the power delay profile between a LOS path and a NLOS path. This is what the third step to seventh step will be done in Fig. 4 .
- Third step computes the delay of each path (detectable i th path) to the first detectable path (the First Path) with formula (3), i.e. computing the arrival time difference ⁇ i between the i th path and the First Path.
- ⁇ i Time_Of_ith_Path_Arrival - Time_Of_First_Path_Arrival
- n is the number of detectable paths
- ⁇ i is the delay of the i th path to arrival time of the LOS path (if it exists)
- p i is the power of the i th path.
- the invention takes the real Measured time of the First Path arrival time (Time_Of_First_Path_ Arrival-Time) as starting point, and the obtained ⁇ is less than the theoretical mean delay obtained by taking a delay to which the direct distance between the base station and mobile station corresponds as the starting point, but in a LOS environment this decrement is very little. Nevertheless, in a NLOS environment there is a larger difference between the ⁇ computed from formula (3) and the real ⁇ ; this can be seen by comparing Fig. 2a and Fig. 2b .
- Fig. 5 is an embodiment of the invention.
- the LOS identification module in the base station identifies whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path for a result of de-spread, coherently and de-coherently accumulated; the identified result is sent up, through interface Iub, to the location estimation unit in the Radio Network Controller (RNC), which is called base station controller in GSM; the location estimation unit will use the identified result to improve the location estimation accuracy.
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- the LOS identification module may be put in the User Equipment and the identified result is sent to the NodeB and RNC through the Uu interface.
- the method for identifying the channel including a LOS path and the channel including a NLOS path in the invention may also be used to identify a channel in high speed data transmission.
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- The invention generally relates to mobile communication technology, especially to a method that identifies whether a channel includes a Line Of Sight (LOS) path or a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) path for a mobile station location in third generation cellular mobile communication system.
- In a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile communication system, an important way to raise the estimation accuracy of mobile station location is to identify whether the channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path, since the delay estimation error caused by a NLOS path is the most serious one of those factors that affect the estimation accuracy of a mobile station location. The LOS path can be understood as the transmitter is line of sight with the receiver, and the NLOS channel can be understood as the transmitter is non-line of sight with the receiver.
- M. P. Wylie first proposes technique that identifies a NLOS used for mobile station location in the article named "The Non-Line of Sight Problem in Mobile Location Estimation" [1]. In Sept. 9th, 1997, he proposes a patent (with number:
US 5,974,329 ) to the USPTO named "Method and System for Mobile Location Estimation" [2], which aims at the NLOS error correction in the mobile location estimation and takes the NLOS identifying technique as a main element of the invention. In his invention the main thinking to identify a NLOS is as follow. - (1) Make long time recorders for distance between a UE (User Equipment) and a base station measured in every base station;
- (2) Make smooth processing for the amount of recorded data;
- (3) Identify a NLOS with the fact that the variance measured in a NLOS (after smooth processing, it is caused by geomorphology feature) is much greater than the variance measured in a LOS (caused by system measurement error).
- The NLOS identifying method proposed by [1] and [2] need to use the time correlation properties of a mobile station, i.e., the method is suitable for identifying LOS of a mobile station in a moving state, but it is unsuitable for identifying a LOS of a mobile station in a static state; furthermore, the method need to accumulate data for a longer period of time, which will cause a longer delay and is difficult to satisfy response time requirement of the FCC.
- A patent (number
CN 01105808.0 ) named "Method and Device for Identifying a NLOS channel in a CDMA cellular communication system" [3] has been applied by the applicant; in this patent, a LOS identifying method is proposed, which synthetically uses channel loss and multipath power profile to identify a LOS path. - Although the method in [3] has overcome the disadvantage of the method in [1] and [2] which only identify the LOS at the moving state of a mobile station, but in [3], the method has not used the power differences between paths, and, the ratio of the mean delay and delay spread
τ /σ in a same power delay profile to identify a LOS, also the selected characteristic parameters are not simple and clear enough, so the implementation is relatively complex. - In the article:" Characterization of UHF multipath radio channels in factory buildings " [4] written by T. S. Rappaport, IEEE transaction on antenna and propagation, vol.37, no.8, pp.1058-1069, August, 1989, based on the indoor measured data,
τ /σ difference between LOS path and NLOS path at an indoor environment has been discussed, i.e., regularity of multipath power profile in LOS path and NLOS path at the indoor environment has been discussed; the conclusion is that lessτ /σ shows that energy is concentrated on the first path and largerτ /σ shows that energy is concentrated on the middle and trail part of the power delay profile. In reference [4], the discussion aboutτ /σ is based on that the LOS distance is known and thereby the arriving time of LOS path can be computed; but in real the detected first path may not be the LOS path and also how to compute and use regularity ofτ /σ has not been discussed there. - Objective of the invention is to design a method to identify a LOS path in a CDMA mobile communication system. With this method based on multipath searching (including de-spread, coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation), it can be identified that whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path.
- One purpose of the invention is to provide a method to identify whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path according to the power difference between a direct path and a non-direct path on the same power delay profile.
- Another purpose of the invention is to provide a method to further identify whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path by means of
τ /σ difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path (whereinτ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile, and σ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile), based on the result of above method. - A method for identifying whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path in a mobile communication system, comprises:
- A. reading in a power delay profile associated to the channel;
- B. selecting a path with maximum power amplitude, i.e. a Maximum Path, from the power delay profile;
- C. estimating an average noise power associated to the power delay profile, and determining, and determining arrival time of a First Path and the Maximum Path;
- D. detecting a Local Maximum Path value that is selected at the range that has within microsecond Alpha delay from the Maximum Path; if there is no detectable path, taking Theta multiple of the noise average power as the Local Maximum Path value, and detecting whether a power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than a threshold K;
- E. detecting whether an arrival time difference between the First Path and the Maximum Path is less than a time interval T;
- F. if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than the threshold K, and simultaneously the arrival time difference between the First Path and the Maximum Path is less than the time interval T, determining the channel includes a LOS path; otherwise determining the channel includes a NLOS path.
After the step F, further comprises a step of detecting whether the channel including a NLOS path determined by Step F is the channel including a LOS path or a NLOS path, byτ /σ difference of the power delay profile between the LOS path and the NLOS path, which comprises: - G. computing τ i that is an arrival time difference between a ith detectable path and first detectable path;
- H. according to following formulas, computing
τ and root-mean-squaie delay spread σ, - I. computing σ that is a ratio of mean delay to root-mean-square delay spread of power delay profile; if
τ /σ is less than DeltaΔ, determining the channel includes a LOS path, and ifτ / σ is not less than DeltaΔ, determining the channel includes a NLOS path; - Wherein the Delta is taken between 0.5 to 1.
- Wherein the Theta θ is taken 2.
the Alpha α width is greater than one chip. - In Step D, the threshold K in indoor environment, is set less than the threshold in outdoor environment, and the threshold in outdoor environment is set 10.
- Wherein Step D further comprises, dividing the threshold K into K1 and K2, wherein K1 > K2;
wherein Step F further comprises, if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than K1, determining the channel includes a LOS path; if the ratio is less than K2, determining that the channel includes a NLOS path; and if said ratio is between K1 and K2, determining that the channel includes an undetermined path. - The threshold K1 is taken 10 and K2 is taken 5.
- The time interval T is within three chips, and typically two chips.
- Comparing with the technical scheme in [3], the technical scheme of the invention uses the power difference between paths on the same power delay profile, and uses
τ /σ to identify a LOS path (τ is the mean delay and σ is the RMS delay spread of the multipath power profile). - A special feature of the invention is that the method for identifying a LOS path can be used to a mobile station (terminal) either in a moving state or in a static state. Implementation of the method deploys the present signal processing techniques for a communication system, such as de-spread, coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation etc., so implementation is simple and compatible with various mobile communication systems.
- Simulation shows that the method which uses the power difference between a direct path and a non-direct path on same power delay profile can effectively differentiate a LOS path or a NLOS path, but also the method which uses
τ /σ difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path and is based on the result of above method can effectively differentiate a LOS path or a NLOS path. When the above methods are involved the method in the location estimation algorithm, the mobile station positioning accuracy is obviously increased. - The method for identifying a LOS path may also be used to identify a channel in high speed data transmission.
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Fig. 1 shows diagrams of power difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path on a same power delay profile; whereinFig. 1a is typical power delay profile of a channel including LOS paths, andFig. 1b is typical power delay profile of a channel including NLOS paths. -
Fig. 2 shows diagrams ofτ /σ difference between a LOS path and a NLOS path; whereinFig. 2a is the curve obtained by taking theoretical arrival time of a LOS path as the reference point, andFig. 2b is the curve obtained by taking arrival time of the measured First Path as the reference point. -
Fig. 3 shows a flowchart to determinate the channel including LOS/NLOS paths based on power difference between specific paths. -
Fig. 4 shows a flowchart to identify a channel including NLOS paths synthetically using power difference between paths andτ /σ. -
Fig. 5 shows a system diagram of an embodiment of the invention which is used to identify a channel including LOS paths. - The invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.
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Fig. 1 shows the power difference of a LOS path and a NLOS path on a same power delay profile. The abscissa is the relative delay with microsecond as a unit; the ordinate is the power with dB as a unit. InFig. 1 , the First_Path is the first path, the Max_Path is the maximum power amplitude path and the Second_Max_Path is the second power amplitude path; the Alphaα is an interval width and the Local_Max_Path is the local maximum power amplitude path; the searching window for the Local_Max_Path is from the starting point to the ending point. -
Fig. 1a is a typical power delay profile of a channel including LOS paths after having been processed with coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation;Fig. 1b is a typical power delay profile of a channel including NLOS paths after having been processed with coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation. - As shown in
Fig. 1a , the characteristics of a channel including LOS paths power delay profile are: at the beginning location or 1 to 2 chips delay of power delay profile, there is a strongest path (Max_Path) of which strength is Ricean-distribute4; within interval Alphaα that directly follows behind the strongest path, there are quasi-LOS paths caused by strong reflection of terrain, and amplitudes of them have no great difference with the amplitude of the strongest path but they are attenuated rapidly; after Alphaα , there are typical NLOS paths and the strength of them is the Rayleigh distributed, and the Local_Max_Path is searched in the searching window (from the starting point to the ending point). Measurement shows the Local_Max_Path amplitude (-30dB inFig. 1a ) is obviously lower than the Max_Path amplitude (0dB inFig. 1a ), and in general the Local_Max_Path amplitude is lower than the Max_Path amplitude more than 10dB (it is 30dB inFig. 1a ). The difference of these two amplitudes is a base to identify a channel including LOS paths in this invention. - As shown in
Fig. 1b , the characteristics of a channel including NLOS pathos power delay profile are: at the beginning location or 1 to 2 chips delay of it, there is the first path First_Path, then the strongest path Max_Path, and then an Alphaα interval; after the Alphaα interval they are a typical NLOS paths and the Local_Max_Path is searched in this searching window (from the starting point to the ending point as shown inFig. 1b ). Measurement shows that there is no obviously difference between the amplitude of the Local_Max_Path and the amplitude of the Max_Path; this feature is a base to identify a channel including NLOS paths in this invention. -
Fig. 2 shows theτ /σ difference of the power delay profile for a channel including LOS paths and a NLOS paths (whereinτ is a mean delay of a multipath power profile, and σ is a root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread of the multipath power profile). InFig. 2 , the abscissa is a sample sequence number of the power delay spread, i.e. the power delay spread sequence number; and the ordinate is the ratio ofτ /σ, i.e. a mean delay/a RMS time-delay spread. -
Fig. 2a takes the arriving time of the LOS path as the starting point to compute the values ofτ /σ curve for LOS path and NLOS path. It is seen that the average value ofτ /σ for the LOS path is about 0.65 under the threshold (it is 1.0 as shown inFig. 2 ), and the average value ofτ /σ for the NLOS path is about 1.5 above the threshold; so takingτ /σ = 1 as a threshold, it is easier to differentiate the two kinds of channels. -
Fig. 2b takes the first path having been measured as the starting point to compute the values ofτ /σ curves for LOS path and NLOS path; the real-line shows theτ /σ curve of the LOS path, and the dot-line shows theτ /σ curve of the NLOS path. ComparingFig. 2a and Fig. 2b , it is shown that for the LOS path the average value inFig. 2b is decreased a little than inFig. 2a (it is 0.65 or so), but for the NLOS path the average value inFig. 2b is obviously decreased than inFig. 2a (it is decreased from 1.5 to 1.0, decreasing about 0.5). -
Fig. 2b shows that, there is an ambiguous zone forτ /σ curve of the LOS path andτ / σ curve of the NLOS path, but when theτ / σ value is less than a specific value (it is 0.65 inFig. 2b ), it is determined that the channel includes a LOS path. This is the base of the invention to useτ /σ value for further identifying a LOS path after having been identified by the amplitude difference between different paths. -
Fig. 3 shows a basic flowchart to identify the channel including a LOS path or a NLOS path by using power strength (amplitude) difference between direct path and a non-direct path. - In the first step, read in the power delay profile and extract its characteristic parameters; said power delay profile is obtained after the system has performed the coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation, and the outputs of the coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation are taken as a extracted basis of the characteristic parameters.
- In the second step, pick up the strongest path Max_Path; the Max_Path is the path with maximum power amplitude (power strength) in the whole power -delay profile.
- In the third step, evaluate the Average_Noisc_Power, the Time_Of_First_Path_Arrival and the Time_Of_Max_Path_Arrival. With the present mature technique, the Average_Noise_Power is evaluated in two steps: first, take N (N=5, for example) strongest paths away from the power delay profile, second, make average within the searching window for the power delay profile in which N paths have been taken away; wherein way to take a strongest path away is as follow: select the strongest path on the power delay profile, set values of samples in the range that covers three sample points at both side of the strongest path sample to zero, thereby one path power of the power delay profile having been taken away, which will be used for taking away the strongest path next time, is obtained; repeat N-1 times of the above procedure to obtain the power delay profile in which the N strongest paths have been taken away (when the number of paths is less than N, some noise powers will be taken away, which does not affect application).
- In the fourth step, determine the Local_Max_Path that must be selected at the range that has Alphaα microsecond delay from the Max_Path; if there is no detectable path in said range, take Theta θ (such as 2) multiple of noise average power as the Local_Max_Path value. The purpose to take said range that has Alphaα microsecond delay from the Max_Path is to avoid the strong reflect path that follows the Max_Path in the channel including a LOS path; the Alpha α should be taken more than one chip width.
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- Formula (1) detects whether a ratio of the strongest path and the local strongest path (Max_Path/Local_Max_Path) is greater than a threshold K. For the Local_Max_Path, there are two possible situations: there is a local strongest path or there is not a local strongest path; in the later situation, Theta θ multiple of the noise average power (θ = 2) is taken as its value. For indoor and outdoor environment, the threshold K is different; usually the indoor threshold is less than the outdoor threshold, and here K is taken 10 as the outdoor threshold.
- Formula (2) detects whether the arriving time difference between the first path and the maximum path is less than a setting value T; T is within three chips time and typically it is taken two chips time.
- In the sixth step, if formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied simultaneously, determine that it includes a LOS path; if they are not satisfied simultaneously, determine that it includes a NLOS path.
- In real, the power delay profile is various; in some specific environments, the Max_Path/ Local_Max_Path of the channel including a LOS path may overlap the Max_Patb/ Local_Max_Path of the channel including a NLOS path. For differentiation, in this situation the threshold K is divided into two values K1 and K2, wherein K1 > K2, for example K1 is taken 10 and K2 is taken 5.
- When (Max_Path/ Local_Max_Path) > K1, it includes a LOS path; when (Max_Path/ Local_Max_Path) < K2, it includes a NLOS path; and when K1 > (Max_Path/ Local_Max_Path) > K2, it includes an undetermined path.
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Fig. 4 shows a flowchart for identifying a channel including NLOS path by using power difference between paths andτ /σ. The flowchart is divided into two parts; the first part uses power difference between paths to identify the channel including a LOS path, i.e., the first part makes detection by means of amplitude difference between a direct path and a non-direct path; then the second part further identifies the NLOS path having been identified by the first part to determine that the channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path. - The first step and second step detect whether the channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path by using amplitude difference; this is same as the procedure described in
Fig. 3 . - During selection of the threshold K, it is kept in mind that great missing detection probability is taken to ensure that less false detection probability. The missing detection means that parts of LOS paths are missed detecting into NLOS paths, and the false detection means that NLOS paths are detected into LOS paths falsely. Thereby the result is that there are some power delay profiles of channel including LOS paths not fulfilling formula (1), and these LOS paths should be further detected by the
τ /σ difference of the power delay profile between a LOS path and a NLOS path. This is what the third step to seventh step will be done inFig. 4 . -
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- Wherein n is the number of detectable paths, τ i is the delay of the ith path to arrival time of the LOS path (if it exists), and pi is the power of the ith path. .
- In real, general speaking, it is impossible to measure a LOS path arrival time defined in the formulas. In order to compute
τ , the invention takes the real Measured time of the First Path arrival time (Time_Of_First_Path_ Arrival-Time) as starting point, and the obtainedτ is less than the theoretical mean delay obtained by taking a delay to which the direct distance between the base station and mobile station corresponds as the starting point, but in a LOS environment this decrement is very little. Nevertheless, in a NLOS environment there is a larger difference between theτ computed from formula (3) and the realτ ; this can be seen by comparingFig. 2a and Fig. 2b . - Since σ is kept unchanged, in the NLOS environment the computed
τ /σ value is obviously less than the real value, but in the LOS environment the computedτ /σ value is not obviously less than the real value; the result is that the difference ofτ /σ value between the LOS environment and the NLOS environment is decreased, and this will decrease the identification accuracy. -
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- Seventh step may take Delta Δ = 0.6 (Delta may take a value between 0.5 to 1), and determines a channel including LOS paths for those that the
τ /σ are less than 0.6 and a channel including NLOS paths for those that theτ /σ are not less than 0.6. -
Fig. 5 is an embodiment of the invention. InFig. 5 , the LOS identification module in the base station (NodeB) identifies whether a channel includes a LOS path or a NLOS path for a result of de-spread, coherently and de-coherently accumulated; the identified result is sent up, through interface Iub, to the location estimation unit in the Radio Network Controller (RNC), which is called base station controller in GSM; the location estimation unit will use the identified result to improve the location estimation accuracy. - Besides implementing the LOS identification in the NodeB, the LOS identification module may be put in the User Equipment and the identified result is sent to the NodeB and RNC through the Uu interface.
- The method for identifying the channel including a LOS path and the channel including a NLOS path in the invention may also be used to identify a channel in high speed data transmission.
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- A method for identifying whether a channel includes a Line Of Sight (LOS) path or a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) path in a mobile communication system, comprising:A. reading in a power delay profile associated with the channel;B. selecting a path with maximum power amplitude, i.e. a Maximum Path, from the power delay profile;C. estimating an average noise power associated with the power delay profile, and determining the arrival time of a First detectable Path and the Maximum Path;D. detecting a Local Maximum Path value that is selected at the range that is within an Alpha interval from the Maximum Path; if there is no detectable path, taking a multiple of the noise average power as the Local Maximum Path value,
detecting whether a power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than a threshold K;E. detecting whether the arrival time difference between the First detectable Path and the Maximum Path is less than a time interval T, where T is within three chips;F. if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than the threshold K, and simultaneously the arrival time difference between the First detectable Path and the Maximum Path is less than the time interval T, determining the channels includes a LOS path; otherwise determining the channel includes a NLOS path. - A method according to Claim 1, after the step F, further comprising a step of detecting whether the channel including a NLOS path determined by Step F is the channel including a LOS path or a NLOS path, by
τ /σ difference of the power delay profile between the LOS path and the NLOS path, which comprises:G. computing τ i that is an arrival time difference between a ith detectable path and first detectable path;H. according to following formulas, computing mean delayτ and root-mean-square delay spread σ of each detectable path,I. computingwhereinτ /σ that is a ratio of mean delay to root-mean-square delay spread of power delay profile; ifτ /σ is less than Delta Δ, determining the channel includes a LOS path, and ifτ /σ is not less than Delta Δ, determining the channel includes a NLOS path;τ is the mean delay of a power delay profile and σ is a root-mean-square delay spread of the power delay profile; wherein n is number of detectable paths, pi is the ith path power, and i is 1 to n,
wherein Step I comprises taking the Delta between 0.5 to 1. - A method according to Claim 1, wherein said multiple of the noise average power is 2.
- A method according to Claims 1 or 2, wherein the Alpha α width is greater than one chip.
- A method according to Claims 1 or 2, wherein Step D comprises, setting the threshold K in indoor environment less than the threshold in outdoor environment, and setting the threshold in outdoor environment to 10.
- A method according to Claims 1 or 2, wherein Step D further comprises, dividing the threshold K into K1 and K2, wherein K1 > K2;
wherein Step F further comprises, if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than K1, determining the channel includes a LOS path; if the ratio is less than K2, determining that the channel includes a NLOS path; and if said ratio is between K1 and K2, determining that the channel includes an undetermined path. - A method according to Claim 6, wherein the threshold K1 is taken 10 and K2 is taken 5.
- A method according to Claims 1 or 2, wherein Step E comprises, taking the time interval T being two chips.
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